Golf is a difficult game for anyone, but try playing it from a wheelchair with one arm and no feeling from your chest down.

That's what Sydney man James Gribble has done since becoming a quadriplegic four years ago.

"I guess you make a decision very early on whether you're going to lie there and take what you've got, or if you're going to sit up and have a fight," he said.

"You get told by the doctors you are never going to walk again, you might not even be able to feed yourself again."

His life changed forever while travelling in Africa. After a long, hot and very active day, he fainted.

He fell backwards off a stool while waiting for his dinner and was left a quadriplegic.

Before his accident he was a top golfer, and after an intensive rehabilitation program the 34-year-old is now back in the swing of things.

He uses a specially designed wheelchair which elevates him into a more vertical position.

"Just that feeling of being upright and swinging the golf club which I used to love," he said.

"It's pretty hard to put into words I've got to say - it's awesome.

"When you wind up and catch it sweetly it's just as good as it used to be. I'm not quite hitting it 280 or 300 yards any more but the feeling of that absolute peach coming off the middle is identical. That's what golfers search for every time."

James has never been bitter, never says anything negative and he's always looking for the brighter side of life. So that is something that as a brother I look up to and I try to emulate.

"He only swings it with one hand, but he does a really good job - better than some people with two hands. I see a lot of golfers out here and James hits it pretty well so that says a lot about his skill," he said.

His brother Martin Gribble is often there to lend a hand.

"I've never seen James down," Martin said.

"A lot of quadriplegics or spinal injury patients are very bitter because they've been hit by a car or they've had their life taken away from them.

"James has never been bitter, never says anything negative and he's always looking for the brighter side of life. So that is something that as a brother I look up to and I try to emulate."

James Gribble is now trying to establish a Disabled Golf Association in Australia, and he is lobbying for golf to become a Paralympic sport.

"Given that golf is going to be in the able-body Olympics in Rio, one of the biggest ambitions for me is to have paraplegic or quadriplegic golf in the Paralympics. Whether that's in 2020 or beyond, that's my big dream," he said.

He is also looking to begin motivational speaking, re-launch his career as an investment banker, and he's engaged with plans to get married next year.